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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack.
The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday.
NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible.
Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the matter, and implied that a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, may have been waged as an act of protest against the NSA.
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-site-ddos-attack-754/
Try it by all means - its true.
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NSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack. (Original Post)
dipsydoodle
Oct 2013
OP
The idiots that did this do realize that denying access to the web server
BluegrassStateBlues
Oct 2013
#8
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)1. Just use the internet archive, like everyone did during the shutdown
xfundy
(5,105 posts)2. Happens during the Friday news dump cycle?
Hmm.
RonAlps
(11 posts)3. Pakistan General
Pakistani General "Kayani" has applied for NSA position.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)6. Welcome to DU
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. Ok...which one of you broke it?
No cookies and milk till you fess up.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)5. It was me.
I sowwy Agent Mike
steve2470
(37,457 posts)7. fyi for anyone who wants to check out the image:
BluegrassStateBlues
(881 posts)8. The idiots that did this do realize that denying access to the web server
doesn't shut down the NSA's crucial services, right?
All they are doing is causing a minor inconvenience and making themselves assets for some private prison somewhere.
1000words
(7,051 posts)9. What's important is there is resistance.
Given time, drops of water will wear down a mountain.